Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1889, Page 4

by THE DAILY BEE. T B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. _ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME O RIPTION SUBS( Dafly and Sunday, One Year 00 | Bix Months .0 80 Throe Months, 250 Bunday Bee, One ¥ear ... 200 Weekly Bee, One Year with Premium.... 200 OFFICES, Omana, Bes Buildng. Chicago Offce, 567 Rookery Tiilding New York, Hooms 14 and 16 Tribune Bulld- ing. Washington. No. 513 Foucteenth Streot. Council Blufts, No. 12 Pearl Street. Lincoin, 1029 P 8t eet, South Omaha, Corner N CORRESP All communieations relating torial matter should be addre 181 Department, BUSINESS LETTERL AN Lnsiness letters and remittances should B addressed to The Bea Publishing Company, Omnha. Drafis, checks and postoflice oraers 1o be made payable to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Compauy, Proprictors Fullding Farnam and nth Str nd 26th Streets. IEN (B, nows and edi- to the Editor- The Bee on the Trains. There is no excuse for afailure to get Ti i BER on the trains, _All newsdealers have been notl- 1164 to carry & full supnly. Fravelers who want Tk Jee and can't got it on trains where other Omahapupers are carried are requested 10 no- uty T Bee. Pionsh be particular to glve in all cases fall information as to date, railway ard number of train. Glve us your name, not for publication or un- THE REAL PURPOSE. Every intelligent obsex ver of political events understands that the real pur pose of the prohibition, or third party, is to destroy the republican party to make room for itself. The history of this movement for the last eight years is full of the evidences of this. In na- tional and in state clections the prohi- bition ieaders and agitators, wherevor thoy believed there was the best oppor- tunity to strike a blow at the republican party, have made alliance with the de- mocracy and insidiousiy worked in the interest of that party. The course of St. John in the national campaign of 1884 is well remembered, and the at- tempt 1n the last presidential campaign to commit neral [isk, the prohibition candidate, to a like policy, led him to withdraw from active participation in the canvassand leave the mann s of the party free to follow their own de- vie That some of these and their paid in- struments spaved no effort to defent the republican party is amply attested. Among the latter Mrs. Helen M. Gou- gar was conspicuous in her efforts in Indiann, and the fact that that stato cast its vole for, the republican candi- dates was due to no lack of effort on her necessary use, but as a guaranty of zood faith, ——————————————————— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation, Etute of Nebraska, Vid County of Douglas, 5% George B, Tz uck, ecretary of The Doe Tublishing Company, does solemnly swear that ] circulation of Trik DALLY BEE for the K ending November ¢, 180, was as follows: Tuursday, Noy Friday, Nov. §... Baturday, No Average.. Btate of Nebraska, ! County of Douglas, { Bworn to before me and subscribed to fnmy presence this 0th Ay of November, A. D. 180, (Sea),] N. . FEIL, Notary Public. Stato of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | 3. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- s that he is secretary of The lew ublishing Company, that the actual averago daily cireulation of Tk DALy Ber for the month November, 1¢8% 156 copies; for De- cember, 18 January, 158, 18,574 cople: for' March, 18, 18,496 pies: for April i, coples for July, 1 coples: 1or August, 1850, 1 coples; for tewber, 16, 18,710 copies: for Octobo 18007 copios, GroiGr B. TZSCRUCK. Kworn to before me and subscribed in my nco this2d day of November, A 1., 158 1 p. by 11 xposition building will continue business at the old stand. LAND COMMISSIONER GROFF has caught the infoction and is making a clean sweep of his office rubbish. WyoMING has adopted a new consti- part to secure democratic success, How she felt at that time is shown in a letter she wrote dated “At Home, July 6, 1888, in which she said: *“We can carry Indiana and New York for the democrats. * * * I believe the greatest disaster that could come to our country would be the success of Harrison and Morton. I shall work for their defeat.” This letter fell anto the hands of the 1ndianapolis Jowrnal aud was published by that paper, its authenticity being subse- quently acknowledged by Mrs, Gougar, It illustrates the spirit and purpose which dominated the prohibition move- ment then and which now controls its advocates for revenue and the stranded politicians who have found in ita vefuge. These people are prepared to accept free whisky in order to com- pass the overthrow of the republican party, hoping through the demoraliza- tion of society to achieve for themselves place and pow Their’s is not the scheme of *he moral reformer, but rather the policy of the nihilist. The Women's Christian Temperance union. under its present leadership, appears to be drifting hopelessly in the same direction. Its president, in her annual address to the national con- vention, indicated distinetly this drift of the organization, and the majority of the convention were unguestionubly in sympathy with her. But the effort to surrender the organization into the arms of the third party has alveady cost tution, but that will not prevent the territorial act from doing duty for a few years more. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has been released from jail in Boston. Iis im- prisonment for debt was a cruel and disgraceful act. IN TE struggle and swife for office, the votersshould not forget to rerister an emphati Central br “yes” on the Nebraska dge bonds. Di. SLOMINSKI, politician and reve- nuo patriot, is as great a failure with the chair as with the Poles. The doe- tor should stick to the church spire as an implement, of extraction and de- fense. CALVIN BRICE'S bar’l is the rainbow of promise for the Ohio democrats. The belief that he will tap it in exchange for the senatorship haus enhanced the value of legislators one hundred per cent, THE new election laws in this state do not seem to operate any better with re- gard to incompetent election officers than the laws we have repealed. The trouble always has been and is yet in the selection of the judges and clevks, NEBRASKA will be represented at the St. Louis silver convention. She has not only a general interest in the solu- tion of the silver problem, butsilver ha become quite an important factor in the industrial development of her motrop- olis, in which are located the largesu silver refining works in America. ONE of the many blessings which Omaha will be thunkful for will be the settlement on Thanksgiving day of the viaduet und union depot question. It will be ample cuuse for rejoicing if the embargo on the commerce of the city is raised for all time, Tenth street ron- dered safe for travel and traffic and the railroad cowshed reconstructed and en- “larged. All these will follow the voters’ aporoval of the bond propo- sition, With Alexander dodging his ex- plosive subjects, William seeking new allios in tho south and building a navy in the nocth, Francis Joseph doubting the war budget and adding new frills to his crown, Humbert swelling his army and tax list, Frauce torn with in- ternal dissensions, and Belgium wall- ing her frontier with cannon, the con- dition of European monarchies and re- publics does not confirm the diurnal prophecies of peace. The eontinentis like n vast powder house, and a light carolossly or intentionally dropped would start an explosion that would shake the world. T senatorial fight in North Dakota is the one intevesting feature of the political situation in the new state, It appenrs to be generally conceded that ex-Governor Pierce is almost certain to be one of the senators, though he is not without opposition, but there are so many aspirants for the other seat in the United States senate that all guessing is about equally good, Ex-Governor Ordway appenrs to be somewhat io the lend, but he is very vigorously opposed, and someof those who will contest with him for the hooor are strong and pop- ular men. Among theso are General Allen und P, J. McCumber, aud the chances of the latter are thought to be veory good if Ordway should be knocked out, The fight promises to be interest- ing, and whoever wins, North Dakota is cortain Lo be creditably represented in the senate, it heavily,and persistence in this course threatens to bring it disaster. Asa moval force, wisely employed, it might exert a useful influence, but as a politi- al agency of the third party it can be effective only in damaging the cause it was intended to promote. The third party does not stand for progress, but for reaction. It does not seek reform, but destruction. 1ts lead- ers make prohibition a pretense, but their real purpose is power and the spoils of office, and as the first step to the attainment of this they seek the overthrow of the republican party. 'FECT OF RAILROAD ALLIANCE. It is evident t. the railvoads which threatened to fight the Union Pacific- Northwestern alliance from start to finish have been restrained by wiser counsel from a profitless contest. ‘I'en days have passed since the agreement went into effect, but no outward sign of war is yet visible. The restrictions of law render rate wars not only diffi- cult, but decidedly unprofitabie, and it is not surprising that the managers re- frain from sacrificing 1ocal business by cutting through rates. Other and more effective avenues to the same end have been chosen. The first notable effect of the liance is to spur the Burlington and Rock Island managers to action. These ronds are the chief competitors of the combine. Both are operated to the foot of the Rockice, but cannot, stop there and successfully compete with the allied lines. They must connect with the Central Pacific or build tothe coast. The Central is not on the best of terms with its custern connection and would gladly welcome and share business with arival, That it will secure this desired outlet before many months s a settled fact, The widening of the Rio Grande West- ern gauge between Ogden and Grand Junction, Colorado, in connection with the Midiand Pacific, will give the Rock Island a through line from Chicago to Ogden by the first of the year. The managers ovidently foresaw the al- al- liunce, and long bofore it was for- mally announced they had closed a twenty year leaso of the Midland Pacific and are undoubtedly the power hehind the throne of the Rio Grande Western. This condition places the Burlington in a vocket, but it will not remain there for any great length of time. The movements of the com- pany’s leading men in the west leave no doubt that the road will be extended to Ogden at the eurliesv practicable moment. These great railroad movements have an important bearing on the future ot Omaha, With the Burlington ex- tended to Ogden, the city is insured two transcontinental lines and a good prospect for the third. 1t 18 an open socret that the Rock Island has long desired na entrance to this city, but de- clined to pay the exorbitaut tolls de- manded by the Union Pacific, ‘fbis embargo was one of the chief reasons why the company chose Atchison as the point for crossing the Missouri river. It is well known tiat the company has made several surveys from Omaha by way of both Beatrice and Lincoln to Fairbury on its Coloradoline. Tthasalso decided t0 build south through Indian territory and Texas 10 the gulf. These facts, taken in connection with the peoposed Nebraska Central bridge, foreshadow the third transcontinental line for this city, us well as a direot highway be- tween the cattle ranges of Texas and the Omaha warket. From these facts it will be readily goen that the alliance will prove a bless- {ing in disguise, It will materially hasten the dovelopment of Omana's commercial and industrial possibilitios aud our poople should lend & helping hand to the movement. — e INTEMPERATE REFORMERS. The proceedings of the national con- vention of the Women's Christian Temperance union, in session in Chi- engo, has been chiefly distinguished by the assault made on Vice President Morton, upon the charge that he had permitted a snloon to be opened in the new hotel erected by him in Washing- ton. The charge was made by tho president of the union, Miss Willard, and this was done after the wide publi- cation of astatement by the private soerotn of Mr. Morton that there was no truth in the published report that & bar was connected with the hotel, and that Mr. Morton had never entertained the idea of permitting any partof itto be used nsnbar. Subse- quently the convention was informed, upon the responsible authority of Gen- eral Nettloton, that there wns not a shadow of foundation for Miss Willard's accusation, but even this was not suffi- cient to induce the imtemperate zeal- ots in control of the convention to do justice to Mr. Morton by répudiating the accusation, at Jenst to the extent of allowing the contradic- tlon to be placed on record. Finally, after tho futilo effort of Mrs. Foster to induce the convention to undo the in- justice done the vice president of the United States, Mr. St. John wasallowed to make an explanation which acquitted Mr. Morton of the principal eharge, but arraigned him as having consented to the sale of liquors in the new hotel by the lessee. This narrow and petty attack upon the vice president of the nation, based upon & newspaper report without any attempt having been made Lo learn tho real facts, merits the reprobation of all fair-minded people. It would have been an easy matter forthe president of the Women's Christian Temperance union to have ascertained, and it was her duty to have done so. Had she taken the slight trouble nocessary she would have learned that the hotel in Washington ownod by Mr. Morton is conducted as o family apartment house, that no saloon connection was ever con- templated, and that the le simply desired to conform to a necessity of all first-class establishments of this kind in having a wine list, for which it ap- pears a license is required in the national capital. It may be that Mr. Morton gave his consent to this, and no fair-minded man or woman will hoid him blameworthy for so doing. it must be presumed that the lessee of the hotel applied for a license to keep a wine list because his guests demanded it, and only the most fanatical will pretend that he should have been denied a privilege enjoyed by every other hotel in Washington, and a vecessity to his business. This attack on Vice President Mor- ton will do the Women’s Christian Tem- perance union no good. It beways a spiteful and malicious spirit not in harmony with the professions of that organization, ond gives warrant for the question whether it is not de- scending to the level of the third party agitators and their following. It is neither a christian nor a temperate spirit that has characterized the treat- ment of this matter in the national con- vention of the union, and tho fact will not fail 1o 1crease the distrust of the organization which a largely reduced membership during the past year shows to have already become widespread. THE women who unsex themselves and framp through the country lectur- ing people how to protect the home, would be of a great deal mare service to humanity if they would look after their own homes and make them comfortable and habitable, The trouble with most of these women in pants is that home is the last place on ecarth "that could help them. Their temper and peculiar ways would break up any home and drive the most submissive of husbands into unts of dissipation, insang asylums, orinto premature graves. The mothers of Genrge Washington, Abraham Lin- coln and Ulysses Grant wore never known to abandoa their own homes and hearths in search of notoriety, clatter- ing about woman suffrage and the p ervation of the home. The best women that ever lived—the women we most respect and revere—have happy fam- ilies and homes of their own. DEMOCRATIC candidates for city of- fices are lying low, as usual. Tho posi- tion 13 natural and becoming. Explanation ol the Monoecle. New Orleans Picayunc, When the dude is near-sighted and balf- witted ho gets on very well with half an eye-glass. A Horrible Suspieion, Chicago Tribune, The fearful thought intrudes itself—is Miss Gwendoline Caldwell doing the bro- liminury advertising for & carcer on the stage! Kansas Louisville C g To her county seat wars KKansas has added religious riots, Passeugerstraveling through Kuausas should koep their heads a little below the car windows. War on Umbrella Thieves, New York World, A very rainy week at Dover, N, H., drove several citizens to tho formation of a league for the prosecution of umbrella thieves, As o result two men who coolly appropriated umbrellas belonging to others have been conyicted and sent to jail, one for thirty and the other for sixty days. This is & grana beginning. ey A Heartless Union. St. Louis Globe-Demoorat. There is no pretense of affection or even of sound respect on either side. The wgirl has money and the man has & coat-of arms and an abundance of debts, and out of these conditions a bargain s ovolved by which the former pays a oertain prica for tha coat-of- arms, and the latter gets the means to satisfy Lis creditors und enter upon a new career of extravagance and immoraliwy. el Reoform Both Kansas City 2 Among & job lot of scatterlug reforms which Miss Frances E. Willard wants the W. C. T. U. to urge upon congross, are a law probibitiog the maoufacture of cigareties, and oue prohibiting smoking in waitiug rooms and postofiices. Congress should of courso turn from the : MONDAY, tariff and the ifko trivialities to dispose of thess grave watters, And while réforms are 1n order, why not prohibit the mafiufacture of corsets and high heeled shoes, did the wearing of hats in the thoatrest Dou't confitid Four reformatory crusade to the regenera ‘ioll of the male sex only, Miss Willard, WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN. Binghamton Leader: One disagreeablo feature about postage stamps is that they aro apt to get stutk bn themselves. Binghamton Herald: The law permits a man o use his Wife to rob his creditors. Yet in the face of ‘this it is argued that marriagoe is a failure. Boston Courier: “There is an art in pull- ing on glove: ys a fashion paper. Come 10 think of it you have to get your hand in, a8 it were, in patting on a glove properly. Philadelphia mone Record: “Just so much gone to waste,” said an unwiliing papa as he gave his daughter the money to buy a silver belt. Tramp—Say, boss, can't you help s poor feliow alone a little? Pedestrian (kicking nim) —Whny, certainly; which way would you like 10 go! Munsey's Weekly: State’'s Attorney— 0 the defendant did propose to you that you set fire to tho store and get half tho in- surance. State now whether or not he of- fered to protect you from all risk of pun- ishment at the hands of the law. Wnat dud he say about that!” Witnoss—*Yes, sir; d to see me through, He smd 26 to catch me in the act and Jet you prosecute me.” Puck: Uncle Si Low (watching pile- drivers at work on a West street tound- ation): “Waal, I swow! I've heerd about your buryin’ the wires, but this do deat all.” Tdlet What's this got to do with iti" Unele Si: “Why, when you git them tole- graph poles druv iuto the greund, how do the men git down to string the wires?” Akron Telegram: “This scems like a swoet dream,” he rapturously remarked as he lingered witi her at the doorstep. *It doesu’t seem like a dream to me,”” sho re- phied, “for a dream vamshes, you know.” He vanished Harper's Monthiy (Extract from a youne lady’s letter from Ve ): Last night 1lay in u gondola on the Grand canal drinking it all in, and life never scemed so full before, Boston Courter: Friend—*"Are you happy?? Spirit (through mediam)—*“Per- fectly 80.” F.—*“What has pleased you most since you left us?" “I'ne epitaph on my tombstone. It both amazes aud delights me, " STATE AND TERRITOKY, Nrebraska Jortings. Tho St. Paul dentists have started a rate war on atore teeth. A Denver capitalist named Doyd 1s to open a state bank at Gothenburg shortly. Oaly one of the ches at North Bend has a pastor, the, ¢ three pulpits being vacant, The new Sons of Veterans camy at Norfolk has elected officers and adopted the name “Sliioh Camp No. 847 Adams county farmers raised amount of celcty this scason, them better than any other crop. atent medicine company has an immense which pmd been in- ated at Hustings. One of the nostrums to bo manufactured will bea remedy for hog chol Clyde Stone, son of a prominent Ulysses Visher's elevator at Peru fell across the B. & M. side track the other night. It was full of grain and 1t took -several days’ work to remove it. Kev. 4. P. Haynon, one of the men who have been conducting a holiness meeting at Table Rock. has eloned with a daughter of Je Carmichuel. vitters, an old man charged with and who shot himself lust Thursday, died turday ut the bome of the sheriff of Fillmore county in Geaeva. He wus evi- ne, tngs' chief of police having been slected sheriff of the county, the city ofi will soon be vacant and there will o scramble among tho members of the police force fer promotion. Tho mne-year-old son of Rev. Sweeny, va tor of the lipiscopal church at Geneva. ar- rived from London, England, a few days ago, having made the long journey alone and withiout a mishap. Mrs, Harry Bolton, of Unadilla, a bride of a few days’ stanging. started out in married Iife to carry the pociketbook. She carried it about two wniles and then lostit. As the purse contained $100 a diligent scarch wi made, bul no traces of the missing articl couid'be found. The Ponca Mail publisies the followin, The attention of the authorities of D; county, the place where a crime of any ree frow murder to & misdcmeanor is never punished, is called to the manner in which criminals are treated here in Dixon county. They are given fair und impartial trials, good intclligent counsel furnisbed them, then they ara convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. Dixon and Dakota counties are pretly near reighbors, but thero is a vast diffcrence between Luo ways in which they ladle out justice. lowa ltewrs. Auburn’s new. uu church will be dedicated next ‘Wilham Mahany had his nose bitten off in a street fight at Keokuk the other day. Mr. and Mrs, Chauncey Lamb, of Clinton, will celebrate their golden wedding anoiver- sary this week, anklin township, Greene county, farmers havo organized 8_co-operative sloré i con- nection with the Farmers alliance. ‘The State Teachers’ association witl hold its thirty-fourth annual meeting at Des Moines December 81 and January 2 and 3. Because his gir) went back on him William Oberdorff, a young man of Waverly, commit- ted suicide at Sbeil Rock by cutting his throat with a razov. R. B, Beach, liviog near Joiley, lost ten head of cattle'last week by salting them on a picce of zine. Chloride of zine was formed in sullicient quantities to poison the cattle, Av urn containing the nshes of Schaupp, who died last spring in Italy, liis body was cremated, will be re- by lus brogher in Fort Dodge, and wall be buried in 8 camotery there. * Another residens®f Burlington has myste- riously disappeared. This time it is Georgo V. Holwes, a \JL@ Cr and prominent memver of tha A. O, U. W¥Pho lust seen of him was at a suloon, wherg he borrowed §1.25 Senator James Dooley, of What Choer, the Twelfth distr tor, hus sent in his Tes- ignation to the governor, having been electod mayor of Gutbirie, Oklahoma. Hi senator expires Janfary 4, so his resignation is a mere matter pf formality, John 1!, Norris, a Springfield, 0., detective, is'in Burlington looking after a trio of bu sharks who bumbgazicd aa old _gentlen named Palmer ou ,000 80me Limo ago, “The men he is lo8king for are crooks of a national reputationt and belong to an organ- ized gang, with ‘headquarters in _Wall street, New "“'”ff Cheir names are George Post, alias Stone, Ldw Ludlum, alias Harris, atias “Lattle Lew,” and Tom O'Brien. us The Two Dakoras. There is talk of starting a democratiodaily in Rapid City. The Elk Point crcamery made 93,111 pounds of butter the past season. The first carload of machinery for the new mill hus arrived at Rapid Civy. Watertown is afilicted with an awmatenr dranetic club, woich gives entortainments every third woek. Minnescla wants the ipsane asylum aund peuitentiary of western South Dakota lo- cated at that place. he electrio light at Aberdeen lured & dozen wild ducks and u huge owl te their death the other night. Rev, 8. W, Inghem was the first resident clergyman in Dakota, he baving been as- signed to the Methodist church at Verwillion October 13, 1860. NOVEMBER 11, 1889, THE PASSING OF PROHIBITION A Knook:Out Blow Administered By the Hawkoyes. THIS ISM HAS RUN ITS RACE. How the Recent Politioal Rovolution in lowa is Viewed by the Lead- ing Newspapors of the Country, A Virtual Repudiation, St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.) The democratic success in Towa is due al- most wholly to the reaction of popular senti- ment against the tyranny of prohibition. This roaction has been gatherme strength from year to year. [t has repoatedly broaght the republican party in that state to the verge of overthrow and bas now reached such proportions that hencoforth this hitherto impregnabie republican stronghold muy bo considered a doubtiul state, at loast as long as the vrohibition issue is involved in state election o result of the recont elo tion, which places the executive department and probably tho legislature under demo: cratio control, is a virtual repudiation of the prohibition policy by the people of Iowa. A Set-Bick ¢ r Prohibition. New York Timss, The leading republican newspapers before the clection contended that the aefeat of was a little more impossible than the other ~the passage of whioh would have saved the state. There is Maine with forty years of prohibition record, and the venerable pro- hibs still clamoring for an additional waste basket full of laws. “I'he tremendions pronunciamento of Penn. sylvania, whon cornered and bullied into an exprossion of honest opinion on the prohibi- tion hew-gagging and fuzzy-guzzying, has not dashed the demoniac crusador a bit. On the contrary, we are told they are like the army of five hundrod “become more deter- mined.” The truth is, 8o many of the peo- ple are s particular wo do not see how the rl‘|’nn)lu'ml party is to got along, It is hag- ridden by the hobby horse crusade, Ivery fool has his own receipt for doing everything for everybody according to a patent 3he has taken out for 1t, and if the patont medicine is not taken tho patentee kicks. The Tareiff Yot an lsave. Kansas Uity Journal (Rep.) Rapublican defeat in Towa was caused by an intense hostility toward prohibition in certain localities and by a bolief among the farmers of tho state that Hutchison, tho re publican candidate for governor, was buta croature of tho railroad attoraoy I'ho tariff had absolutely nothing to do with shaping the result. Will Survive the Cronibitionists, Peoria Transeript (Rep,) “We suppose if the political prohibitionists suce el in gotting high licenso in lowa they will be porfectly satistied. Andthat 1s what affairs are comme to. In ten years from now there will ot by a state in the union that will have a prohibitory law on the statuto books, And ths ropublican party will not be smashed, either. hisky. their purty would mean a set-back for pro- hibition. As usual with parties in power, the republicans in Towahave so apportioned the state as to give them groat advantage, and they will hold the logislature in spite of the poblar vote azamst_them, but the vote is likely to have effect_even upon republican views of what is expedient as to liquor legis- lation, The present laws cannot be got rid of without again amending the constitution, but resubmission of the question of prohi- bition is not unlikely to become an 1ssue, and there are symptoms of the same thing even in Kansas. Prombiion ind e Topeka Capital (Rep.) Tn Towa and New York tho ropublicans was based on the pa coneerning the liquor trafife. lowa is a pro- hibition state, ana the republican party 18 standing by the people's verdict on that ques- tion. As it was in KKansas and in every other state where probibitory liquor iaws b cnacted, the rum interest concentrated all it forces against the law and the party wh sustains it, kvery technical objection was ainst the validity of the law and v obstacie possible was thrown in the way'of its enforcement, Some rapublicans there, us here, sull long for the good old uays of the dram shop to return, and they join hands with the democrats and straight pro- hibitio: ists to defeat the only party that bas volos enougn to carry tho law and courage enough to enforee it. position to tv's course e Besult, s (Dem.) inst cranky politi- ng the restof The Inevi Kansas Ci of reaction cal prohibition, after the country, has reached KKnosas and lowa. I'he iarge cities of Kansas have resolved to eject the fraud which has accomplished noth- inbut evil. Prohibition has been on trial v minute engine of executive pov in ats hands, Rigid enforcement with picked volice commissioners and assistant attorneys weneral hus beeu tried. Half way enforce- went with peviodical fines upon joint keepers has been tried, Poiitical enforcement with iquor privileges parceled out to strikers and vetty subordinate politicians has been tried. The dose straight and mixed. Homeeopathy,allopathy and the Thompsonian treatment have had their chanco. Orders front the executive council have struck end on, sideways, upward, downward and icros: I sult has been the same. liquor sold, drunkenness unabated and reve- nue lost. The wav we Chicago Trivune (Rep.) Srasping at an opportunity to stop the rule of free whisky and subject tho saloons to a restrictive minimum tax of $500, and as much more as communities might fuvor, thousands of repuvlicans who had grown ticed of free liquor voted for Boies to oxpress their opin- 1on of the impracticability of prohibition in cities and to demand actual and cffective control of the liguor trafic. The high license and local option plank of the democrats ined them a heavy vote in the river coun- ties in addition to the Germans, who bolted 10 them en masse five years ago. The Reaction Has Como, Chicagn Ttmes (Dem.) Prohibitionists have failed absolutely in the effort to compel total abstinence from the use of alcoholic and malt liquors. They have failed where seemingly they have suc- ceeded, as in Maine, Kansas, Towa. The tiat written in the fundamental law of those s might as well have been for practical hurposes an order that there shall be no wore marriages in_form or The un- sutable has been sold. Stolen strone waters bave been sweet. The heensod dram-shop was banished to give place to the ili bole with poorer stufl on tap. The of police court cases of drunkenness in- creased. The number of sneaks with the bottle behind the door multiplied. Reaction comes; the pendulum swings b ireat states called upon to vote for prohibition re- jeot the proposition by overwhelming ma- jorities. Rbode Island formally recants, Towa openly revolts. ‘The only ray of com- fort 1o prohibitionists comes from the Dakotas, but it is easy to see that these new states will not long rotain the probibition law. Herein lies the failure of prohibition as a political principle, Prohibition i+ Keally Loeal Option, New York Commercial Advertiser (Dem.) InJowa the republican defection is not a revolt, it is revolution, Two years ago the republican majority was 16,000; last year it was 81,000. This year the democratic ma- Jority is reported to be 10,000, Here, as 1 Massichusetts, the democratio party stood for advanced democratic princi- ples, On the liquor question itstood for looui ovtion, the convention having pointedly declared that state probibition meant the local option of every ity to break the laws. Tired of th+ Dry Policy. Minnea, olis Tribune (Rev.) The great issue of battle was prohibition, The republicans forced the fighting on this line, while their opponents shrewdly and snccessfully managed to unite the license and free whisky elements in opposition. Prohibition in Towa is not secured by the constitution, and the election, therefore, would seem to indicate that the people are tired of the ‘“dry" policy. Following so closely upon the heels of the prohibition victories 1n the Dakotas, the verdict of Iowa 18 entitled to serious consideration, The Chief Uause, Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.) In Iowa the nomination of Mr, Hutchison by the republican state convention was compromise, reached after a long struggle, betweon candidutes with lurger followings. He was not well known, and the enemy took occasion to set afloat various damaging re- ports as to his record oa tho railroad ques- tion and his intentions on the liquor question. The chief cause of the defection was un- doubledly the unti-probibition element of tho party. Hinged on the Liquor Question, St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.) The tariff, it is true, was discussed to some extent by both republicans and democrats in Ohio, but in Jowa neither that nor any other question of national concern can be said o buve actually occupied the sttention of the stump speakers or the press. In both states the result was determined by local issues, ‘The liguor question was the decisive factor in each of them. The Fr nzy of Fanatics, Oineiunati Commereial-Gazelte (Rep.) There is an object lesson for you. gone demooratic! We suppose this must be because there are not temperance laws evoueh in Iowa. There must have been forty or fifty bills introduced, each of which Jowa Detroit Pres Prese (D3m.) Towa has grown aweary of froo whisky. 1ts Dom & sealed. Denver Newes (Dem.) Mahoneism is done away with in Virginia and the doom of prohibition. is sealed 1 Towa. It must be modifiod by tho dominant varty else tho state will pass to domocratic control. - How Pronibition Succeeds, St. Joseph Gazette (Dsm.) Woll prohibition is a suceess in Towa. That is, it helped to give the state a demo- cratio govornor, and what should ve called a success if not a measure capable of such a miracle? A Gain for lemperance, Chicaqgo Herald. titution of & saloon, licensed and d by the law, for the lowa drug store o a groat gain for the cause of tem- The sul regul would perance, At Prohibitia Door., Washington Capital. The democrats have carried Towa. Tho re- sult can be lmd to the side-door of prokibi- tion, The Worst of Al Minneapolis Journal (Rep.) The worst blow prohibition has received of late was not dealt in tho elections in the eastern states, whore it was made a spe 1ssue, but was received in the Towa election, where it was a political question. The more the facts become known the more apparent 1t becomes that the democrats. relied upon tho opposition to prohibition as their prio- cipal weapon against the republic ns. : - HE WAS A PAGAN. The Only Sober Man in Turinpovorto- nayn Was Not a Christian, From George Kennai’s *‘Adventures in Bastern Siberia,” in the November Century, we quote the following: *We'had no difficulty in getting posv horses until just before dark ~Monday evening, when we reached the station of Turinopovorotnaya (Too-rin-0-po-vo- rote-nah-yah), about fifty miles from Chita. and found the whole village in a state of hilarious intoxication. cighs filled with young men and boys were carecring hither and thither with wild whoopsand halloos; long lin of p nt girls in bright-colored dresses were unsteadily promena back and forth in the streets with their arms around one another and singing khorovod songs; the station-house was filled with flushed and excited people from neighboring settlements, who had antly been participating ina cele- bration of some kind and were about starting for their homes; the station- master, who, perbaps, had not finished his celebration, wus nowhere to be found; there was not a driver about the stables; and the ‘“‘starosta” (stah-vo- stah), a short. fat old man, who looked “ike n burgher from Amsterdam, was so drunk that even with the aid of a cane he could hardly stand on his feet. In vain we tried to ascertain the rea- sons for this surprising epidemic of in- ebriation. Nobody was sober enough to explain to us what had happened. From the excited and more or less in- coberent conversation of the intoxi- cated travelersin the station house I learned that even the village priest was so drunk that he had to be taken home in a sleigh by the soberest of his parishione If the station-master, the starost the village priest, the dri and all of the inhabitants were drunk, there was evidently no prospect ot our being able to get horses, In fact, we could not find anybody who seemed sober enough to know thesdiffercnce between a horse and his harness. We therclore brought our baggage into the crowded station house and sat down in an unoc- cupied corner to study intoxicated hu- manity und await turther developments. ery person in the house was drunl, ] * %" About 9 o’clock the noise, tu and shouting in the village' str begun to subside; the station-master, whose intoxication had taken the form of severe official dignity, suddenly ap- |THE CAPITAL CITY GRIS Laws Will Wait Till His Sucoessor 1s Appointod. THE GOVERNOR IN NO HURRY. Before Appointing a New Becretary e Will Pause and Ponder Awhile olitical Rumors Flymg About—Miscellancous ———y 1029 P St Laxcon, Instead of to take Secretary Laws' Lixconn Buneav or Tae Osxana Bee, } Nob,, Nov. 10. offect immediately resignation should have read “'to take effect on the appointment and qualification of & my successor.” It scoms thatthe appointment of L successor is stll & mattor of doubt. The governor has not favor of any of the various yet, and he is appanoutly biding his own #ood time to make his decision known. It is said that ho is moving very cautiously in the matter and Proposes to appoint i seere- tary of stata that, in_his judgmont, will bo unobjectionable to the state at large. OF the candidates, howey Mr. Cowdry is thought to have the best chance. wa' grave ed in candidates as vory dec : Politionl Rumors. “The volitical boo is buzzing with unusual vigor in the Capital City. But, it can be truly said, slates aro made and broken for the various stato and district offcers al- most oyery day in the woek. -Lincoln is a voritablo nest of politicians, and they hateu peared, and in a tone of stern menace wanted to know whare the post drivers were and what all this disorder meant. ~ * * [ipally, when we had almost abandoned the hope of ever getting away, a real sober man ina ragged sheepskin coat emerged from the dark- ness and reported in a business-like manner to the station-master that the horses were ready forus. The drunken and irate official, who seemed desirous of vindicating his dignity and authority in some way, overwhelmed the unforty- nate driver with abuse, and ended by fining him 60 kopecks—whether for being sober or having the horses ready I donot know. Wo piled our baggage 1 ato the sleigh, climbed in upon it with t hankful hearts. As the last faint sound of revelry died away in the dis- tance behind us I said to the driver: “What’s the matter with everybody inthis village? The whole population seems to be drunk.” “Phey’ve been consecrating o new church,” said the driver, soberly. “Consecrating a church!”Iexclaimed in amazement. *‘Is that the way you consecrate churches?”’ *1Ldon’t know,” e replied. ‘‘Some- times they drink. Alter the services they had a gulyginia (a sort of holiday promenade with musie and spirituous refreshments), and some of them crooked their elbows too often.” **Some of them!” 1 repeated, *‘All of them, you mean. You're the only so- ber man I've seen in. the place. How does it happon that you're not drunk?®” “I'm not a christian,” he replied, with quiet simplicity. *I'm a Buriat.” As a christian—fnot a member of the holy orthodox church—I was si- lenced {:y the unceramonious wony of the reply. The only sober man in the vallage of three or four bundred inhab- itants proved to be a pagan, and he hud just been fined fifty kopecks by a chris- tian official for not getting drunk with other good citizens and thus showdhg his respect for the newly consecrated edifice and his appreciation of Lhe be- mgn influence of the holy orthodox faith, caudidates for the dear people to feather without even using the wonderful incubator. The alleged Dorsey-Richards-Meiklejohn tie-up, howaever, is not generally accopted as a fact, altnough 1t is stated to be one of Brad Slaughter's pot schomes. The fact of the there is a highor power than Brad who scelts to shape political affairs in the Third congressional distrist, and he will come pretty near doingit. It 18 suggested that the deal is a big ono that will givo a county the governor and a membor of con |- gress, and a district additional the secretary of state and attorney general. W1t is suegested further that this alleged combination, coming through the source it did, has complicatea the governor in his ap- pointment of secrotary of state, and thut he Droposcs to o to the bottom of it before ho places the important patronage he now has 1o hand. But the governor is very reticent und he declines to spe ding tho mat- ter, ond in ths ho is commonded by all cautious politicians, cott. of York, and Irving, of Buffalo, aro both candidates for attornoy_gencral, and it 18 said thut they and their friends do not look with favor upon aggressions on the part of Meiklejohn and his friends for this poeition. ““The big three aro big men,” sald a promi- nent Liucolnite to-day, “'but ths schemo won't down, They can’t affora to press it, either, for in doing 8o they pinch tho toes of some of their best friends. 1t is accepted as a fact here that Raymond and Hon. E. B, Brown enter the race for governor. Senator will both City Nows and Notes. Governor Thayer was tho guest of Captain Palmer at Plattsmouth to-day. Department Commander Morrison, of Ne- brasla City, pussed the day in the city. Al Fairbrother and brido will be at homo to their friends at 1610 Maple strcet after November 10. The Woman’s Clristian association held a gospel meeting at the First Presbyterian church this afterncon at4 o'clock. Miss Helen Aughey led tho cxercises. “The Tabitha home was formally dedicated lort, addresses were delivered by Revs, Newmau, Curtis and Stein, The homo is a delightful drive of two miles just east of the stato house. Prof. Nicholson has finished the analysis of Mrs, Dr. Robbins’ stomach. Th result is a complete vindication of Dr. Robbins, who was charged with poisoning his wife. Thomas H. Benton gave a delightful yosterday evening in_honor of her Mrs, W. L. Brown, of Des Moines, Ia. Over' forty guests were in ottendanc Among the number may be mentioned Mesdames John M. Thayer, Deweese, Im- hoff, John R: Clark, Molic Hathaway, and the Misses and Gertie Aitlen and furst. A woman of the town by the name of Smith sought a suicide's death last night 1 room 4, Hutehins' block, at the corner of iftconth and O stroets, Some of her usso- ciates, however, discovered the attemp fin time to prevent'a fatal result, The polico were notified, but before they arrived the woman was spirited uway, with the hope of keeping the matter quiet, Search was in- stituted for her, but as yet her present whercabouts Liave not been discovered. — WONDERFUL {TUNNELS, wan, Sawy aunders, Graco One Cut on the Pian ot a Corkscrew, Ol Straight and Long. On the St. Gothard railway, not far from the famous long tunnel, there is a cable tunnel on the - of a rew, says the Boy's Own Paper. In the descent of the mountain it was found impossible to lay out a safe in- cline on a straight line or ordinary curve, and the engineers got over tho difficulty by driving a tunnel which en- ters the mountain high on the sid bing a circle through the solid ck, constantly descending as it does 80, reappears under itself on the moun- tain side some distance belov, then dives into the rock, aguin circlés and sinks as it circles until itagain emerges into daylight under itsell, when the line resumes its course down bhill in a more famhar way. The making of a tunnel like this is as striking an’ example of engincering skill as the world can show, and many very skillful things have been done by our railway makers. The art of tunnel- ing isan old one, but it never attained such perfection as distinguishes it to day. The re is n won erful tunnel at Chi- cago driven in 1852, two miles out un- der the bottom of the lake, so that the city mny obtain a water supply free from the refuse of the city. This tun nel, which bas now been doubled, hus two shafts, one on *land and one in the bed of the lake, rising through a eribf which erib is defended by a breakwater, and serves as the foundation of a light- house. This was a difficuit work to mau- age, owing to its being through and quicksand, but it is a mere nothing as to length, There is, for instance, the Croton aqueduct from Croton down to New York, which is driven through solid rock for thirty-three avd one- fourth miles. The Hoosac tunuel is four and three-quarter miles in length and is twenty-six feet wide and®twenty-one and a half feet high. In Peru, on the Lima & Orovo rail- road, there are sixty tunnels in 100 miles, the longest being on the summit of the pass through the Andes. This tunnel is two miles higher above sea level than either the St. Gothard or Mont Cenis, and all the wools and stores and food had to be carvied up the moun- tains on mule back. When canals were introduced into Europe, tunnels became necessary to avoid excessive lockage, and with the railways tunnels became quite common, Of the older railway tunnels in Kng- land, the longest i» the Woodhead, on the Manchester & Leeds line, which is three miles long, and consists of two parallel tunnels, one for each track. W. C. Nesbitt, of the Dell Rapids Time saidio his paper that Alex Hersey, pro- prietor of the “Owl" saloon in Sioux Falls, was & “contemptible moral outlaw” aud oughtto be in the penitentiary, and now Alex wauts $5,000 to buy oil for s lacerated reputation.